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...death sentence; but he would have the last word. So this spring, two months before he succumbed at 59 to cancer of the pancreas and liver, he staged his own funeral oration on Britain's Channel 4 program Without Walls. In the 70-minute conversation with host Melvyn Bragg, the dying man displayed a new, calm bravery. At one point he paused, knee-high in the stream of his eloquence, to ask if he might take a sip of liquid morphine to ease his pain. Bragg wondered if they should stop; Potter replied, "It's better...
...testing the limits of his anguish, to complete two teleplays: Karaoke, another musical drama; and Cold Lazarus, about a 20th century man whose head has been preserved for 400 years. Potter planned to write 10 pages a day. "I will -- and do -- meet that schedule every day," he told Bragg. "My only regret is to die four pages too soon." Sticking a cigarette between fingers crippled by arthritis, then puffing on "this lovely tube of delight," he said he was a physical coward in his youth. But now, dying, "you find out that in fact, at the last, thank...
...tended to publicize in the past the overt discrimination that is practiced by the Harvard University police force and almost every police force in this nation," Bragg says...
According to Bragg, the Ntshanga case was the most significant racial incident on campus since the BSA distributed the "On the Harvard Plantation" flyer in the spring of 1992. That document charged campus police with discrimination in four other specific cases. Then as with Ntshanga, Johnson denied the allegations...
...Black junior charges that HarvardPolice arrested him and sent him to jail because of his skin color. Dean of Students Archie C. Epps supports the student's claim and Alvin L. Bragg '95 says the police regularaly discriminate against Blacks. Police officials deny any wrongdoing...